Chương 42: Standing At The Zenith
Alice used her scepter to slash Daemon's throat in 3 places. Daemon regenerated, but he was a lot slower than before. It wasn't just his regeneration either. His movement was also slower.
Daemon turned both his hands into rocket launchers and fired two misses at Alice, which she carefully knocked away with her scepter without exploding them. Alice ran up to him and bashed his stomach in with the scepter. It was so strong, it blew a hole through Daemon and made him fall back. Alice sliced his face with her claws, but he retaliated by kicking her in the stomach, sending her several meters back. Alice clutched her stomach in pain. But then, she smiled.
"Ok... my turn." She extended her hand out and started to charge up a null orb. Daemon charged at her again, turning both his hands into axes. "Adios." Aalice unleashed the null. It was faster and stronger than before, and before he knew it, Daemon was missing the lower half of his body. And unlike before, he couldn't regenerate it. The anomaly started flailing around, screaming and crying.
"Incredible..." Pinoy could do nothing but stand there in shock at how strong Alice was. She turned back to him.
"Would you like to do the honors? This is your revenge after all."
"..."
Pinoy walked up to Alice and the flailing Cyber Demon. He looked down on it with disgust and grabbed his chakram. "Alice... thank you, for helping me kill this thing. I couldn't have done it without you."
A look of surprise came across Alice's face. She never thought she'd hear Pinoy genuinely thank her. He just didn't seem like that type of person. "O-Oh, yeah. No problem. Just doing my job."
Pinoy bisected the beast in half. The monster's memories began to fill Pinoy's mind. He found out the Cyber Demon's name was Wisp.
When Wisp Torrent was very young, he heard people banging at the door. His parents stuffed him and his two brothers inside of a closet. The three started crying, wanting to know what was going on.
"Shhh, shhhhh. It's ok sweeties." Their mom said while hugging them all. "We just need to do some business real quick. We'll be right back."
"Don't come out." Their father demanded.
The two left as the three young boys were forced to stay in the closet. Not even a minute later, the two heard now popping sounds.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Wisp heard these sounds somewhere before. He remembered when we walked in on his dad watching his favorite show, James Bond 007. The weapons in the movie made a similar noise. The kids stayed in that closet for several minutes, hours, and even days.
They would take routines sneaking across the room to go to the bathroom. But the children started. They drank the sink water when they were thirsty. They didn't want to defy their parents' orders. But three days after the banging noises, Wisp's younger brother, Pedro, got hungry.
He ran to the kitchen, despite Wisp trying to convince him to stay. A few moments later, Wisp and his older brother, Fabio, heard a loud scream. It was Pedro. We ran to check on Pedro and when we got there, we saw a horrifying sight.
It was their parents' dead, pale bodies. The two had blood puddles under them. Their father had two holes in his chest and mom had one hole in her head. Wisp nudged his parents in confusion.
"Mommy, daddy, what are you doing?... The beds over there. Come on. Come on... COME ON!"
Wisp knew what happened, but was refusing to accept the reality. But he had two. Fabio stood over their bodies, clenching his fist, while Pedro cried over their mother's body.
Several years have passed since then. They were sent to live with their uncle named York.
York didn't expose this side to his brother, but he was a pedophile. He would sexually abuse the boys, especially Fabio. It was hard to prove York was abusing them though, because he was a famous actor and was the co-leader of a child rescue agency.
The boys experience this life for several years and it affects them all. Fabio hated his uncle, more than anything. But he slowly grew to become him. He took what his uncle did to him and ended up assaulting his female classmate for several hours. The trauma ended up making her commit suicide, and Fabio was sentenced to 30 years in prison with no chance of parole.
However, through this situation, the court also found out about the crimes York committed and he was sentenced to life in prison.
Now, Wisp and Pedro were alone again. Wisp now turned 18, meaning, he was an adult. But Pedro was still only 14 and in school. So, instead of going to Community College, he ended up getting a part-time job to provide for Pedro.
It was hard. It would often be 100-hour work weeks, but Wisp didn't mind it. Pedro became his pride and joy. He was the last person he had left in the world. He would do anything to protect him.
Pedro was extremely kind-hearted. He would often heal animals back to health when they would meet him. There was one animal Pedro was extremely close to. It was a little fox. She would often come by to visit. Pedro would feed her food scraps and play with him every day. It brightened Wisp's day to see them always playing together.
One day, for Pedro's birthday, the two decided to adopt the fox. They named her Mizo. Then, they walked home together while dancing and singing on the sidewalk.
Life was going well... too well.
Suddenly, Mizo had jumped off of Pedro's shoulder and he ran after her. Wisp decided to follow closely behind him. They caught up to Mizo on a bridge. Pedro nuzzled her neck a bit and she sneezed in response. But then, some bikers came by. They were too busy looking at each other and before they knew it, it was too late.
The bikers noticed they were going to crash into Pedro and Wisp and tried to turn. The first biker ended up pushing Pedro off the bridge.
Pedro fell 30 feet down onto the street below and shattered both of his legs with Mizo still in his arms. Pedro let out a scream, which triggered the memory in Wisp's mind. The memory where Pedro screamed when he was at their parents' dead bodies. By the time Wisp came to, a tanker truck was heading towards Pedro. The truck didn't notice the boy.
Pedro knew he was dead. He felt hands wrap around his shoulders. It was like death itself was coming for him. He looked down at Mizo and smiled. He then used all his remaining strength to throw her out of the street. It was at this moment the tanker had noticed the boy below him. He tried to hit the brakes, but it was too late.
CRASH!
Wisp rushed down to the street and when he got there, he was his brother, or more accurately, what remained of him. All he saw was blood spattered everywhere, a truck covered in blood, and the back of the truck beginning to catch on fire.
Mizo cried out to her master bloody remains on the street as the tears trickled down her fur.
A few days later, Wisp had buried Pedro himself. He didn't have anyone to help him. He could afford to get help. He didn't have anyone else in his life. Well, there was one person left.
Mizo walked up with a rose in her mouth and placed it on Pedro's tombstone. Wisp got down and petted her head.
"Thank you, little brother." Wisp struggled to hold his tears back. "F-For giving m-me a r-reason to live." In the next moment, Wisp took his own life to reunite with his brother.
Back in reality, Pinoy understood why the Cyber Demon did what it did. It just wanted to be seen. It wanted to show everyone his awful life so that just maybe, someone would extend a hand to help him. But no one ever did. Though Pinoy didn't feel any sympathy towards the creature, he could feel empathetic for it now.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, Yoshi walked into Belle's room once he got back from his grocery trip. Belle turned back to him in a panic.
"Yoshi, Alice just killed a zenith class!"
"Belle, we need to tal- what?"
"You're girlfriend just defeated the Cyber Demon by herself!"
"Is she ok?!"
"Yeah. Of course, she is. She's Alice."
"..."
"Something wrong, my guy?"
"I need to tell you what I saw today."
"What? Did you get a new dog treat for Alice?" Belle jokingly asked.
"It's about Rose, my mom, and your cousin."
"..."
Belle's previous joking expression turned into a serious and shocked face.
Meanwhile, back in Pinoy's room, Alice and Pinoy went flying out the computer screen. They smacked into the wall and lay folded on the ground.
"That hurt... a lot..." Pinoy groaned.
"Ugh, I think I got CTE." Alice commented.
Alice got up, rubbing the back of her head. She felt stronger than she did when she entered the computer. She looked all over her body and saw several wounds. She was bleeding all over and her arm was broken from the fight with Daemon.
"Hey, is your arm..." Pinoy got up and looked at her arm. "It's broken... badly. You should go to the nurse's office."
Alice didn't hear Pinoy's words. She only sat there and stayed at her blood dripping down her arm. She started licking the wound, taking Pinoy aback. That wasn't the only weird thing he noticed. Her eyes were different. They were sharper and darker than before. Her claws also wouldn't detract.
Suddenly, Taiyo came into the room. "Well, I'll be damned. You killed that thing."
"You were watching us?" Pinoy asked with a bit of frustration in his voice. "You just watched us and didn't come to help us?!"
"Yes. If it makes you feel better, it was more or less a test for Aluce. The Cyber Demon has always been on the weaker side of zenith class anomalies, but it's so hard to find. But since Pinoy did such a good job at baiting it out, and Alice was only a little weaker than it, I wanted to see if she could kill it. She's not quite Zenith class yet, but she's damn close."
"I hate you."
"I love me. Anyways, I expect an in-depth report by tomorrow about what happened while in there."
Taiyo teleported out of Pinoy's room. Alice fell to the ground, slumped. She facepalmed while growling. "I hate that woman."
Meanwhile, Yoshi had just told Belle what Rose had told him. She didn't know how to react. She just sat there, crouched up on the bed.
"So, he brought back our loved ones... just to torture us... and then killed them..." Yoshi nodded. Belle lay down in bed. "I... I can't right now. I mean... I mean at least her soul isn't suffering."
"Belle..."
"Sorry... C-Can you please leave me alone for now?... I need to think."
Yoshi respected her wishes. He nodded before exiting her room. While Belle was confused about her own emotions, Yoshi was straight. He didn't want to think about he. He's been trying to move on from his past for years, and now Star brings it back all over again. He just wanted to brainwash himself to make him forget about... just about everything. That was until, he heard a voice that reassured him of all of his hope, dreams, and love.
"Sweetheart!" yelled Alice while running towards Yoshi. She jumped on him and hugged him tightly as her thighs wrapped around his hips.
"Honey, you seem happy."
"You seem sad."
"W-What are you talking about?"
"Sweetie, don't lie to me. You're easy to read. What's my darling chef's issue?"
"Well... I'd rather forget about it."
"Oh... Well, if that's what you really want, then I understand. Do you wanna pat my head? It might make you feel better."
"Yeah... thanks, honey."
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